Founder Profile

Pew is an independent nonprofit organization – the sole beneficiary of seven individual trusts established between 1948 and 1979 by four generous and committed siblings. Learn more about one of our founders: Mary Ethel Pew.

Prepared by Kasia O'Neill Murray and Sarah Gesiriech of the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care, this paper summarizes the role that federal legislation has played over time in ensuring safety, permanence and well being for vulnerable children and youth.